- The Contributors
José Antonio Cheibub is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently working on a project on elections and accountability in democratic and nondemocratic regimes.
Christopher P. Manfredi is Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He is the author of Judicial Power and the Charter: Canada and the Paradox of Liberal Constitutionalism (1993) and The Supreme Court and Juvenile Justice (1998).
Michael Lusztig is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Risking Free Trade: The Politics of Trade in Britain, Canada, Mexico and the United States (1996).
Susanne Lohmann is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published numerous articles on central banking and collective action.
Gary W. Cox is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His latest book is Making Votes Count (1997), a study of strategic coordination in the world’s electoral systems.
Frances M. Rosenbluth is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. She writes extensively on Japanese politics and political economy. Her most recent books, both coauthored with Mark Ramseyer, are Japan’s Political Marketplace (1993) and The Politics of Oligarchy (1995).
Michael F. Thies is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He studies Japanese electoral and legislative politics in comparative perspective.
Thomas Ertman is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1997). His current projects include a collective volume on the comparative development of Europe’s consociational democracies since the 1960s and a book on democratization in Western Europe from the French Revolution to the Second World War.